This work describes the development of a
monitoring system for vessels from the Marine Technology Unit
(UTM) of the Spanish Research Council (CSIC) and draws on
the graph capabilities and the potential access to remote data
that is offered by Google Earth and the new satellite data
transmission capabilities installed on-board. Performance
analysis is carried out at several critical points of the system, in
terms of data processing and networking. This development is a
product of a more ambitious acquisition project that deals with
the modeling and acquisition of oceanographic data led by a
working group at the UTM and the Universitat Politècnica de
Catalunya.
This system, with minor variations in implementation, can
be adopted to monitor a greater number of mobile units while
at the same time remain sufficiently flexible to be used as a
didactic teaching tool for schools and universities